Salon.Com has a look at the World Conference Against Racism. Apparently for its opening session with the 8,000 delegates, the South African group coordinating the conference actually chose Yasser Arafat and Fidel Castro to greet the delegates. Unbelievable. Russian human rights activist Yuri Dzhibladze had the best take on this development,
I was shocked. showed a very bad understanding of this forum, and the meaning of the term ‘human rights.’ Listening to Fidel speak, we only had to wonder why the organizers had failed to invite Saddam Hussein, or a representative of the Taliban regime.